Writing

Oreste Biancoli

Born — Died

1897-10-20 — 1971-11-25

Place of birth

Bologna, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Bicycle Thieves poster
8.2

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Bicycle Thieves

1948

100 Years of Love poster
7.5

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

100 Years of Love

1954

Times Gone By poster
5.2

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Times Gone By

1952

The Bandit poster
6.4

Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.

The Bandit

1946

Marco Polo poster
4.5

Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.

Marco Polo

1962

Pontius Pilate poster
6.7

The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.

Pontius Pilate

1962

Mid-Century Loves poster
5.2

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

Mid-Century Loves

1954

Ai vostri ordini, signora... poster
9.0

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.

Ai vostri ordini, signora...

1939

Divisione Folgore poster
6.5

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.

Divisione Folgore

1954

Erik the Conqueror poster
6.4

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

Erik the Conqueror

1961

Nozze vagabonde poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nozze vagabonde

1936

The Witch's Curse poster
4.7

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

The Witch's Curse

1962

Black Feathers poster
6.0

In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, with the townspeople, become engaged in an effort to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam.

Black Feathers

1952

Black Feathers poster
6.0

In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, with the townspeople, become engaged in an effort to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam.

Black Feathers

1952

Tomorrow Is Too Late poster
6.4

Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.

Tomorrow Is Too Late

1950

Joseph and His Brethren poster
6.2

A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.

Joseph and His Brethren

1961

Winter Holidays poster
6.6

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.

Winter Holidays

1959

Submarine Attack poster
6.4

During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.

Submarine Attack

1954

The Moralist poster
6.4

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

The Moralist

1959

Voice of Silence poster
7.0

The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of Silence”. For three days, they meditate on their lives.

Voice of Silence

1953

Love, the Italian Way poster
4.4

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.

Love, the Italian Way

1960

Desert Warrior poster
7.0

Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and raid without knowing that one of them is Fatima, daughter of Ibrahim, who poses as a singer of the harem. Said, dazzled by the beauty of the girl, released. But soon after, Fatima, who also doesn´t know the origin of the robber, sees him again, and among them born a strong attraction.

Desert Warrior

1957

The Ghost poster
6.3

A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.

The Ghost

1963

Sant'Elena, piccola isola poster
6.0

The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena.

Sant'Elena, piccola isola

1943

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World poster
6.2

Samson must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World

1961

Genitori in blue-jeans poster
6.6

Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

Genitori in blue-jeans

1960

The Flame that Never Dies poster
6.2

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.

The Flame that Never Dies

1949

Il mio amico Benito poster
5.8

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.

Il mio amico Benito

1962

Atlas Against the Cyclops poster
6.5

Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.

Atlas Against the Cyclops

1961

Il cardinale Lambertini poster
6.5

Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.

Il cardinale Lambertini

1954

Gran varietà poster
6.7

A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.

Gran varietà

1954

The Masseuses poster
5.1

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?

The Masseuses

1962

Tonight at Eleven poster
9.0

A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.

Tonight at Eleven

1937

Tonight at Eleven poster
9.0

A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.

Tonight at Eleven

1937

Yvonne of the Night poster
5.5

Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns.

Yvonne of the Night

1949

The Private Secretary poster
6.5

During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.

The Private Secretary

1931

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il sogno di tutti

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il sogno di tutti

1940

Non sono più guaglione poster
8.0

A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.

Non sono più guaglione

1957

The Avenger of Venice poster
6.3

Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape.

The Avenger of Venice

1964